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Control your settings with the Nvidia app

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ACOLYTES OF TEAM GREEN have had an array of GPU-focused software to contend with since GeForce Experience arrived in 2013. It’s the app you’d open to update drivers or optimize the graphics settings of a particular game, but if you wanted to set up G-sync, change digital audio settings, or view the HDCP status of your display, you’d need to open the Nvidia Control Panel.

You’d also need to log in with an Nvidia account just to update your drivers, something that added an extra level of aggravation nobody wanted. Thanks to the new Nvidia app that’s now gone, though there’s now a rewards scheme that requires a login

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